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The NBA announced Thursday that it is moving forward in the process to force suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team.

The 10-member Advisory-Finance Committee met through a conference call and unanimously voted to pursue the ouster of Sterling as quickly as possible. The committee will meet again next week.

"This afternoon, the Advisory/Finance Committee met via conference call to discuss the process for termination of Donald T. Sterling's ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers," said Mike Bass, the NBA's executive vice president of communications. "The Committee unanimously agreed to move forward as expeditiously as possible and will reconvene next week."

NBA commissioner Adam Silver suspended Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million on Tuesday after the 80-year-old owner made racial comments to his girfriend that were exposed by TMZ last weekend. Silver also requested that the NBA Board of Governors move to force the sale of the team, which requires three-quarters of the owners to approve the action.